Suddenly the story of the white stork "delivering" (ie dropping off) a little baby takes on a frighteningly dark dimension.

" A mothers love is unconditional " Storks: "Nah"

I was watching the livestream of this nest, when this incident happened. From what I recall, the majority opinion was that this parent killed off this youngster, due to the food situation. The other parent had died, after flying into hydro wires. It was too much work for this remaining parent, to try and gather enough food to feed all of the offspring. So a sacrifice had to be made. And if I remember correctly, it was after this little one's demise, that the landowner started climbing up a ladder each day and dumping a bucket of fish into the nest, to try and help insure the survival of the remaining youngsters.

“And THAT, kids, is what will happen if you get sassy like Wilbur did” Yes, mother.

The sound of it crashing into whatever it landed on. BRUTAL.

The fact that the stork watched it fall to make sure it died. SAVAGE.

My cat did something similar to this. She had 4 kittens in our closet. After a few days she took one of them and put it under our bed. The kittens werent walking yet so we knew it would die. We brought it back to the closet with the other kittens and the mom cat ended up accepting it. When they got a little older we realized this kitten was not like the others. It seemed "slow" maybe even dumb. Luckily when we gave the kittens away the lady took one of the brothers as well. Turned out pretty good.

Humans: We need to be more like animals in nature! Animals:

Bro went out like a G though, fighting and pecking all the way until the end.

Lol, the other four started behaving so well after seeing what happened to him.

Stork parent: Nothing personal, kid. This is an act of mercy to save you from death of hunger.

It was the smallest, but it was definitely a fighter!

From all the videos Im seeing, it looks like storks are savage parents and siblings as well. There must be a reason for the harsh odds of stork survival success.

every other bird:living a happy life Storks:Somebody is going to die right now!

Everyone saying he is nasty cuz he was biting the siblings.... He didn't know his mom was the one hurting him so he took it out on them. Prolly thinking since he is the smallest his siblings are trying to get him. I think mama stork did this intentionally.

I had a dog that was the smallest of the litter. Ended up he lived the longest of the whole litter and grew to be the biggest one of all of them.

My favorite is how animals generally don't have language like humans do, so there's no prolonged melodramas and manipulations. The mama stork isn't really even swift and efficient, but constantly observing and curious in her killing.

it's a vicious cycle. one chick is hatched weaker or is just a little unlucky and doesn't get fed, which makes it weaker and weaker, so it has less strength to fight for food, so it gets fed less and less. wild animals can't waste their energy on nursing the runt, so a sacrifice like that was the best what the stork mom could do for herself, her chicks and the smallest chick too probably

The people’s whose house it hits at 10:35 must’ve jumped when they heard that thump.

Times must be hard, parents will usually get rid of weakest/youngest chicks when food is scarce in order to give the bigger ones a higher chance of survival.

With all the beautiful stories of storks dropping off babies now I find out what a stork mom is like😮…

You have to give it to the little one....he had the instinct of survival, even taking on his mother by lunging at her a few times which had her on the back foot! Such a truly sad ending though. He clearly didnt stand a chance.

I like being human. For how incredibly complicated and stressful our lives are compared to animals, we have an appreciation of other creatures that animals don’t. We have a greater capacity to love and experience the beauty of it.

She sacrificed the weakest to give the other ones a better chance to make it. Very sad and difficult to watch, especially the last attack with her beak, and the noisy lethal fall of the poor chick...nature is cruel sometimes. RIP little chick ;(.

The way the mother watches it until it hits the deck.

I feel bad for the little guy, he might have been small but he had a fighting spirit, nature is cruel

It got real quiet real quick in that nest.

The little guy was the toughest one in the family! He would have fought his way to a successful existence had his mother not taken the opportunity away from him.

It's sad. the baby seems to understand what's happening and it's scared.

I can almost hear the animal activists yelling at the bird trying to question who told it to do that

The Undertaker throwing Mankind off the Hell in the Cell.

Man hört den Aufprall. Extrem brutal!

They're lizards with feathers. Get over it.

Storks are brutal. I'm going back to watch my panda live cams. LOL

That thud it made must’ve scared the hell out of whoever heard it.

That lil dude was gangster he was the smallest but was tough and kept KOing his bigger brothers 😂

@10:32 middle stork is like "imma just put my head between ya'll real quick"

It is interesting how the 1 that is being outed by the parent, takes it out on the other chicks.

Interesting the one was buried so deeply inside "his" siblings. (For a while I wasn't able to see there were (so many as!) five.) Eventually, I noticed him and suspected he might be the one for some reason, even before she started to go after him. (Perhaps "she" had been after him for a while, causing him to hide? Any history to support that?)

The smaller one was a real runt. Nowhere near as big and strong as the others. Nature does not play.

I feel like the mom was kinda hesitant. She was like “You know I love you but you can’t be hurting your siblings… bye”

부족한 먹이탓인가요? 제일 작은 녀석을 제거하네요. 안타까운 광경을 보니 가슴이 무거워 집니다.

If I ever come back as a stork, look around the nest, and realize I was last to hatch..... think I'll probably just go ahead and take a nosedive off the ledge.

That little one was fiesty, seems like mom was chill until he started acting out

Wrong choice by mama Stork, the little one was gutsy. It's not the size of the Stork in the fight, but the size of the roof on which it lands. By the way, show starts at 8:40

Nature is wild! I think the mama Stork actually broke the chicks neck before she dropped it off

The little guy is trying so hard to "not" be noticed by Mom... he can sense treachery is on her mind!

That little one was the nastiest one, pecking his siblings... No wonder Mom is like "off you go!!"

Bottom stork: “stand still, you guys-its vision is based on movement.”

Nothing in the Wild happens for no reason. That’s the misterious balance of Nature.

7:12 I like how the siblings are trying to protect him and then he starts pecking them and they're like "ok, you get what's coming to you". 9:40 the dude that was protecting him is so done with his shit.

It may seem brutal and obviously storks outright are/can be (and I am aware: storks very easily and very commonly reduce their own brood quantity), but I also think there is more to it. Birds and similar predators usually use various ways to check which off their offspring seem strong, healthy and feisty and which aren't. Considering it was smaller than the other chicks the stork parent already had its eyes on this one. Although one or two pecks of the parent looked a bit tough, I think initially it was fine as the parent stork was also keen to mostly ignore the small stork once it responded and then passively rejoined the brood... until it kept pecking at its siblings. That didn't look playful anymore. It wouldn't be weird if the parent stork caught on to that by instinct which may have lead to some matter of animalistic realization that if that little stork grows up and continues with that behaviour, it could cause severe injuries in the rest of the brood. Or in other words, the parent stork probably instinctually saw the little stork as problematic either way and decided it might as well be thrown out then.

Mom seems to be reacting to the cries of one baby which is instigated by a different one, which the little one gets blamed for I think. 6:37 the one stork laying down in front starts crying louder as its being poked and prodded on its wing by the other one in the middle. Then the little one next to him is subtly touching it with its beak just as mother stork notices at 7:00 and 7:10. Must think hes the one thats causing problems, so she pushes him off. And instead of taking the admonishing and quieting down, he goes into fight mode and starts pecking all of them. Mom has no time for it and out he goes.

And the 4th smallest storklet might be the next to get the boot over the edge if Mom notices that he's now the smallest one left...

Last to hatch is always the smallest, and the instincts of the bird tells it to cut its losses, and eliminate the weak. Their job is to make more healthy birds. That little bird fought to survive, knew to hide from the constant picking. But its instinctual, little one pecked the crap out of adults legs right to the end. Rip little stork

Motherly love at its best. Do they have CPS for birds?

Note to self: set up a safety net under that stork nest in my yard.

The others were like “oh shit we better stfu or we are next”

"Steven, you're up for adoption." "To who?" "Jesus Christ." *YEET*

Lol that thunk at the end 😂

Little stork: *whining* Mother: get your @zz outta here

The bang it made was extra disturbing

What country is this?

birds are creepy asf lowkey

OMG, so sad! He/she was a tough one, really fought back. Probably would have been a strong survivor in the wild if wasn't singled out since was smaller.

That baby bird had some behavioral problems. You dont see the other babies pecking their siblings over and over like that. The baby bird got corrected by the mom several times before she realised he was a threat, esoecially to poking out the eyes of his siblings, so she made a big decision. She gave him a chance to cool down and stop but he kept being violent instead of chilling. So, off he goes. Wow

Birds are metal af.

She's like she said today's the day if we gonna see if this MF'er can fly or not.

i wonder why they always seem to take a long time just to kill it, why didnt it drop it off right off the get go instead of torturing it for so long, maybe it was trying to see if it was actually worth killing so it does some tests first?

POV the mother: Welp guess I don’t have a smaller children now

Little homie was a violent trouble maker 🤷‍♂️. If it survived it would one of those that kills its own progeny and other storks chicks as well

The beautiful scenery is simply stunning.Backdrop to something at this moment which wasn't so beautiful,though necessary. Momma bird knows what & why she eradicated this little one.Still brutal to see though

... Was I the only one who laughed at the sound of the chick crashing? *LMAO*

That's mother nature at work...cold and without emotion.

So consider the life of a young stork. Fighting to survive even in the nest and against your own family. It's not your fault you were the last to be born and naturally you are going to be smaller than the other birds in the nest. But don't dare show any signs of weakness or you could be singled out to face the drop-of-death and when mom and dad go in search of food, your sibling storks are going to do all they can to make sure there's one less mouth to feed when dinner is served. There's no honour among storks. Do you think that those Storks who manage to survive childhood and grow up to finally leave the nest are going to stay in touch with their fellow murderous siblings???

When people say “oh… we should learn from animals… bla bla”. 🥲 Half of the population wouldn’t survive childhood.

Anyone else think it sounds like satan’s squeaky toys are fighting?

Average animalist: only humans are brutal The animals:

Pretty sure he is frantically pecking the others (and the ground) is not hostility but because he has began starvation and is trying to get some sustenance. All of the others probably get all the food before him so he is always too weak and now at the point of agony. Mother did him a favor.

OMG! I just watched to the end and heard the loud Bang as junior bounced off a metal roof! Yikes!

Notice the other baby storks keeping still and behaving.

Anyone else hear it hit a roof top

My cat had kittens. 5 of them. I woke up one night and heard a crunching sound. Mother cat had taken one of the kitten under the bed and was eating her. Head. First. Utterly disgusted and I never looked at that cat the same again. No idea if the kitten had died already or if she put the final boot in, but damn.

This reminds me of what Mom used to say would happen if I misbehaved.

...and the rest of the babies never again complained of being hungry.....

It's so kind of the stork to allow some scavengers to eat her weakest baby that probably wouldn't have survived anyways. And a smart way to keep her family line strong. Also, not having a decaying baby in her nest helps keep disease and pests away.

Either it had ADHD or she was on crack when she was pregnant with him cause he was wildin out. The other 4 were pretending to be asleep after she threw ole boy overboard 😂

It looks like they instinctively know to play dead, because the next step is getting tossed out of the nest.

Which country and city is this?

The one which got kicked off actually was smaller and look deformed even. It also had aggressive behaviour towards the other chicks

An important lesson; just because she's your mother doesn't mean she loves you. As humans we're expected to be better than animals. But assess your own mothers on a case-by-case basis. Also interesting is that the little bird simply can't comprehend that its mother is attacking it. So instead it starts pecking at its siblings in vain.

『命に嫌わている』(カンザキイオリ) 楽曲。 ⇧ 命のシステムは、残酷かもしれません。 10:46以降からも、４匹の幼鳥から更に口減らしされて、２匹の幼鳥しか残らないと思いました。

Perhaps that little one wasn't getting enough nutrition hence its smaller size and its continued pecking at the others.

It landed on something hard and immediately died…

That sound was such a curve ball

Damn.. He just got voted out of the nest.. 😂 You could hear him hit when he landed.. Survival of the fittest.

Better than my quality control units

Birds are just vicious creatures. When someone tells me they're an avid bird-watcher, but gut reaction is always the same: "lol, *why?"*

Storks can be brutal! 😢

You can hear it CRASH at the bottom, holy hell